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Most likely they were supplied by some arms dealer destined to some third world repressive nation..
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Didn't you guys know the Russians and especially the Chinese have been procuring most of the weapons for Africa's recent conflicts?
For China, this is exchange for the colonization of Africa. The Chinese have already created walled cities and practically re-established slavery in many African nations. They are bleeding the richest continent in the world dry as we sleep.
Somalia is in a strategic position for piracy as it is located on the "Horn of Africa" and can conveniently intercept ships transiting between Asia and Europe via the Suez Canal. They are very active pirates, and usually get away with alot, asides from Muslim holidays when they seem to enjoy shooting themselves rather that escape with the booty.
It's too bad they don't use their boats to fish the most plentiful coastal waters in Africa... but then again what do I know...
man, you can't be serious and say those words at the same time, especialy if you are coming from europe or the states, as I assume you do. that's like a bunch of vampires feeding of a dying man and when one more joins in the rest of them shout "murder!"
sure, chinese approach to this neo-colonialism is more totalitarian and not so cleverly masqueraded under the guise of free trade, democracy and market capitalism as was that from their western rivals which I dare say have been systematically killing Africa for hundreds of years now. and don't even get me started on the weapons trade issue, we all know who's the biggest dealer on the block here...
and fuck peter hitchens and other such critics. where are they when american pharmaceutical companies are conducting experiments on african people or over charging them for drugs and vaccines they desperatly need. where are they when millions of people are being killed for some bullshit minerals used in our cellphones or oil or fucking diamonds or some other shit they might have that our corporations are willing and able to steal from them
Commercials trawlers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_trawler
are unfair competition and lead to unsustainable fishing practices..
^@Pprt: "chinese are bleeding the richest continent in the world dry"...
man, you can't be serious and say those words at the same time, especialy if you are coming from europe or the states, as I assume you do. that's like a bunch of vampires feeding of a dying man and when one more joins in the rest of them shout "murder!"
sure, chinese approach to this neo-colonialism is more totalitarian and not so cleverly masqueraded under the guise of free trade, democracy and market capitalism as was that from their western rivals which I dare say have been systematically killing Africa for hundreds of years now. and don't even get me started on the weapons trade issue, we all know who's the biggest dealer on the block here...
and fuck peter hitchens and other such critics. where are they when american pharmaceutical companies are conducting experiments on african people or over charging them for drugs and vaccines they desperatly need. where are they when millions of people are being killed for some bullshit minerals used in our cellphones or oil or fucking diamonds or some other shit they might have that our corporations are willing and able to steal from them
I sense alot of sympathy (and some guilt) on your behalf. As Pooterius said, I also anxiously await the day Africans will put aside their petty tribalism and begin working instead of loafing about and conducting sporadic warfare. However, I am not so optimistic as to believe that Africans can accomplish this any time soon. And for goodness sakes, it is NOT our duty to fix their countries.
I detect a hint of thought that you believe that Westeners have somehow have taken it upon themselves to eradicate the African peoples with AIDS in order, I assume, to plunder their territory.
You may be interested to know that recent discoveries (last week, actually) suggest that AIDS is far older than previously thought (see here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7213/abs/nature07390.html), dating from possibly 1908. Decades before bioengineering was even conceptualized.
The stark truth is that Africans have been around for longer than us, and have adapted to their environment accordingly in temperament and constitution. They have higher levels of sexual hormones, a lower gestation period a "thrifty" gene permitting greater retention of nutrients and as ethnomedicine evolves, drugs will further target their distinctive biology.
As for comparing Chinese to Western colonialism, it would be an interesting debate, although I can assure you that the way the Chinese go about in 2008 would never fly in a Western country. They have actually stated their intentions of offloading some of the large Chinese population in Africa. Their latest plan is to dump 10 million excess Chinese by 2050.
Egypt is a dictatorship that has been under emergency rule for close to 40 years now. Saudi Arabia is nation with countless human rights abuses. Israel is constantly taking out Palestinians who can only sometimes retaliate with a suicide vest against M-16s, Apache gun ships, F-16s and Merkava tanks.
Arm sales, shit so hot everyone fucks with it.
And Pprt I seen you post some heinous shit before but this really is fucking stupid.
Oh please, that's such stupid xenophobic bullshit. The same kind of attitude that the US pushed in South American interventionism, as if civil war, the drug trade and rebel movements were ingrained in their DNA.
Please refresh my memory when the Egyptians, Saudis or Israelis were last under an international arms embargo because of genocide? Don't stray even further by bringing up the Gaza strip... although I'm sure that was your intention.
China has flaunted international law by procuring weapons complicit in genocide and is currently planning to take over much of West Africa. And all this with utmost impunity. That was my original argument.
As for the question of genetic differences between races, I'm certain your blinders are on full throttle. However please looks into these: GNB3825T, IVS3-48c or even HMBS mutations. As we decode our biological structure, "one-world" myths will no longer hold water, especially when drugs are increasingly being created for specific genotypes... I don't think you can refute that.
I can comprehend and even sympathize with your optimism, Farhad, but sometimes it's best to stick to what your eyes can see rather that what you'd like to see.